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William Hale White (December 22, 1831 – March 14, 1913), known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford, was a British writer and civil servant. ==Life, career and memorials== White's father, William White, a member of the Nonconformist community of the Bunyan Meeting, became well known as a doorkeeper at the House of Commons and wrote sketches of parliamentary life for the ''Illustrated Times''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland )〕 A selection of his parliamentary sketches was published posthumously, in 1897, by Justin McCarthy, the Irish nationalist MP, as ''The Inner Life of the House of Commons''.〔William White, ''The Inner Life of the House of Commons'', edited with a preface by Justin McCarthy, MP, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897〕 White himself was born in Bedford and educated at Bedford Modern School〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bedford Modern School of the black & red )〕 until the family moved to London. There he was trained for the Congregational ministry, but the development of his views prevented his taking up that career and he became a clerk in the Admiralty.〔 He had already served an apprenticeship to journalism before he made his name, or rather his pen name, "Mark Rutherford", famous with three novels, supposedly edited by one Reuben Shapcott: ''The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford'' (1881), ''Mark Rutherford's Deliverance'' (1885) and ''The Revolution in Tanner's Lane'' (1887).〔Max Saunders, "Autobiografiction," ''Times Literary Supplement'' (October 3, 2008), 13-15.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Results for 'au:Rutherford, Mark,' () )〕 Under his own name White translated ''Spinoza's Ethics'' (1883). His later books include ''Miriam's Schooling, and Other Papers'' (1890), ''Catherine Furze'' (2 vols, 1893), ''Clara Hopgood'' (1896), ''Pages from a Journal, with Other Papers'' (1900), and ''John Bunyan'' (1905).〔 There is now a Mark Rutherford School in Bedford and a blue plaque commemorates White at 19 Park Hill in Carshalton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WHITE, WILLIAM HALE (1831–1913) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hale White」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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